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by blasterford 15y ago
If the team were worth that much, then they would have made Loopt astoundingly profitable in the last 7 years, and we'd all be using it. Judge people on their success/failure. Not on what other people think of them. Loopt was a flawed, qu
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by blasterford 15y ago
Never knew this existed. Thanks for the link. I live pretty close as well... http://www.computinghistory.org.uk/pages/12058/School-Visits... Looks like they do some really good stuff with schools etc.
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by blasterford 15y ago
Compared to java, javascript, c, php etc?
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by blasterford 15y ago
Elphaba, Where I Come From, We Believe All Sorts Of Things That Aren't True. We Call It History. A Man's Called A Traitor Or Liberator. A Rich Man's A Thief Or Philanthropist. Is One A Crusader or ruthless invader? It's all
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by blasterford 15y ago
I think the dislike is warranted personally. The amount of exposure they get is extremely out of proportion to what they are and do. They do have it down to a fine art. Even this blog post is designed to get people talking about them - whic
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by blasterford 15y ago
They thrive on being talked about. This is just extra fuel to the fire.
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by blasterford 15y ago
People don't want complicated history. They want "The telephone was invented by Alexander Graham Bell". Even if it's factually incorrect or obscures the real story.
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by blasterford 15y ago
I lived through it too. I fundamentally believe that it is NOT and should not be the task of the government to "create" jobs. We should toughen up benefits, which the current government is already doing, to ensure people out of work don't j
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by blasterford 15y ago
I agree @ arguing online. For what it's worth, the book isn't really filled with opinions, more than it's filled with facts from the time. eg "We were spending X on British Steel, and the Unions wanted us to spend Y, wanted pay raises of Z,
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by blasterford 15y ago
Read the book (Or some other facts from the time). She had to privatise industries because they became ridiculously uncompetitive and expensive to run. During the previous socialist government the number of public sector workers increased d
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by blasterford 15y ago
Why does the UK give India £295m a year in aid? http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-12607537
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by blasterford 15y ago
"openly admit you are reading an overtly right-wing book." It's called an autobiography. I've heard the left wing excuses and arguments and find them thoroughly unconvincing. > b. look at the data. I have.
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by blasterford 15y ago
To a socialist it's the governments obligation to do everything.
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by blasterford 15y ago
It's an autobiography. It's biased. This doesn't make the facts she cites, or arguments she presents any less compelling. It's not really that far fetched to say that "most of our stuff is made in countries with abundant cheap labour". Inve
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by blasterford 15y ago
Manufacturing actually died in the UK because of the unions. Workers became greedy, and unproductive. They were unable to compete with other countries, and instead staged big endless strikes demanding ever rising salaries, better working co
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by blasterford 15y ago
> People often argue that children don't need to know how to program just as they don't need to be a car mechanic to drive a car. The analogy is useless because a car is a one-use machine (it moves), whereas a computer's very essence is
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by blasterford 15y ago
I hope there are simple ways to disable these on browsers. Can't imagine every tab having a load of workers in the background, ending well. One of the pleasant things about javascript is that there are no threads. It's a shame some people h
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by blasterford 15y ago
The lesson here is if you care about security, performance, reliability etc, use old 'uncool' battle worn languages/platforms.
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by blasterford 15y ago
"poor" is surely being used in the 'has been mistreated' way rather than 'has no money' way. Whether he knows what his service is used for or not is surely irrelevant though. The ISPs know that piracy goes on over the internet, so why aren'
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by blasterford 15y ago
The majority of general users have not expressed any sentiment that they mind being tracked in this way on particular websites who have "opted in". In fact, based on advertising trends, they actually find it useful and respond well to it -
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by blasterford 15y ago
Even stranger to see no mention that cookies aren't needed at all to track users successfully. Check your browser at http://panopticlick.eff.org/ Basically, using useragent, plugins, time zone, language, screen size, etc etc etc, you can
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by blasterford 15y ago
I know it's going to be a very unpopular opinion here, but I find it hard to see the worth in thinking about black holes and other physics/astronomy questions. Is the large hadron collider really worth the money? Can someone highlight some
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by blasterford 15y ago
It's not just atheism. The whole of Reddit is pretty much like that.
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by blasterford 15y ago
A recent survey found that something ridiculous like 0.5% of TVs break down within 5 years. Yet people are paying out a lot of money for extended warranties on them. It's a matter of cost vs hassle as you say though I guess. For me, if I ha
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by blasterford 15y ago
> and they said it covered "anything, including kids dropping it on the floor or you spilling coffee on it". That should raise a giant red flag. Unless you're extremely careless and don't look after things, you're paying for other peopl
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by blasterford 15y ago
Sorry to say it, but if you buy an extended warranty on anything you're wasting your money. The whole 'extended warranty' business is how retailers make their money, but are a complete scam. Hardly anything goes wrong these days, and the pr